Higher vocational education generally refers to higher vocational education. Higher vocational education is an important part of China's education, including junior college education, higher vocational education and adult higher education. It is a type of educational development and shoulders the mission of cultivating talents for economic and social construction and development. At the same time, higher vocational education is also a high-level education in China's vocational education system.

Higher vocational education has developed into modern vocational education at three levels: junior college vocational education, undergraduate vocational education and postgraduate vocational education (professional degree postgraduate education).

Teaching in higher vocational colleges pays more attention to the teaching of skills. Higher vocational education is managed by the provincial government. Under the guidance of national policies, the provincial government will recruit students every year according to actual needs and employment situation. Higher vocational education aims at adapting to social employment needs, mainly cultivating students' technical application ability, emphasizing the combination of theory and practical application, and graduates have the ability to work directly.